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About The Callipygian Chronicle

cal.li.py.gi.an|ˌkaləˈpijēən| (also cal.li.py.ge.an)

adjective
having well-shaped buttocks.

DERIVATIVES callipygous |-ˈpīgəs| adjective

This is the personal blog of Yolanda. I write about my life, which was dramatically transformed on July 9, 2007 when I had an amazing, un-medicated labor and birth and met my daughter, Lyra, for the first time. The next morning I awoke in ICU attached to a respirator, and eventually learned that I was given an emergency hysterectomy due to postpartum hemorrhage.

These experiences have left deep, permanent and profound marks on me, and frequently, I write about them.

You can read the first things I wrote about these experiences here and here, when it was all new and raw.

The truth is, it stayed raw for a long time. And sometimes, I still feel raw about it. But right now I’m writing about a lot of other things, including the launch of my portrait photography business, intrinsic images. This space is evolving as I grow more comfortable with bringing more of me—my interests, my passions, my successes and failures—into it.

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I would love to say that every portrait I took as part of my Rainbow Party group panorama was stunning and amazing. A few were, but for some reason I completely lost the ability to focus any time someone in red in posed for me. Seriously, every single red portrait was underexposed or a partial […]

This is part of a series of posts about the planning and execution of my daughter’s third birthday party. You can read all of the posts in this series here. I’ve wanted to create personalized invitations for Lyra’s previous birthdays, but ran out of budget, time, and courage. Years away from Photoshop and graphic design […]

Last Saturday, I participated in the i heart faces Photo Walk Across America. The only Southern California event was held at the Dana Point Marina, which, though it is only thirty minutes away, lies in the next county and is therefore a place I’d never been. When you live in a beach city, you can […]

A few weeks ago Lyra was invited to attend a joint birthday party for a little girl who was turning one and her big brother who was turning five. I asked the mom for permission to take pictures of the day to expand my skills in event photography. The party was held in a gymnastics […]

This is Natalie. She’s momma to a little boy who will born sometime between now and the end of May. The day after her baby shower she let me take these portraits of her. She let me even though I’d never done a portrait session before. She let me even though I rarely get it […]